Rehearsal Techniques

(Acting Workshops NYC)
Rehearsal Techniques

After preparation – how does rehearsal make the acting keep getting better, instead of just making it more stale and “rehearsed”-looking? In the final two days of the workshop, you direct scenes from this script with professional actors (provided by Judith) as well as each other. Then Judith’s critique pinpoints your strengths and weaknesses and offers techniques to take the work to a new level. The strength and freedom this work gives you must be experienced to be believed.

The workshop is limited to ten directors. It is open to people who have taken Judith’s Acting for Directors workshop. It is totally hands-on with lots of one-on-one feedback and consultation. For participants in the LA workshop I can provide a list of LA motels in several price ranges.

It is also possible to take this workshop as an “observer,” which means that you participate fully in the Script Analysis portion of the workshop (the first two days), and observe (without directing scenes) the Rehearsal Techniques portion (the second two days). Actors may attend this workshop as “observers” if they wish. Or, actors of a sufficient level of experience (and the right casting) may volunteer to help out as actors on the third day of the workshop, without charge.

All those who take the workshop, whether as “participants” or “observers” need to have taken the Acting for Directors workshop, and need to have read either Directing Actors or The Film Director’s Intuition – or both. Both are available in many bookstores, on the Internet at Amazon.com, and mwp.com. You will get the most out of the workshop if you have read both books.

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